Opinion: Welcoming summer
The official first day of summer, the Summer Equinox is June 21st. However, in the USA, conventional wisdom says Memorial Day weekend is...
Tami Jo Nix
May 29, 2021


Never to forget
MaxMahem, Wikimedia Commons If you are entertaining guests, a fresh spinach salad with red, white and blue additions, is sure to be...
Cathie Campbell
May 26, 2021
Opinion: Loving the USA
I neglected to mention that Saturday last should have been my brother, Rocky Hill’s, 72nd birthday. He has been gone almost an entire...
Tami Jo Nix
May 22, 2021
Opinion: My blessed mother, QuoVada
May is an auspicious month. It begins with May Day, then the running of the Kentucky Derby, followed by Star Wars day, “May the 4th be...
Tami Jo Nix
May 8, 2021
Opinion: May Day motorcycle runs
April has gone and May Day is upon us. The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed another victim, killing the Merced County May Day Spring Fair in...
Tami Jo Nix
May 1, 2021
Opinion: May Day! May Day! May Day!
No, that’s not the distress signal that you hear when an airplane is in trouble and going down. That is the hullabaloo and razzamatazz...
Jim Glynn
May 1, 2021
Opinion: Skip today, hug and scoop tomorrow
Choose your partner, skip to m’lou, Choose your partner, skip to m’lou, Choose your partner, skip to m’lou, Skip to m’lou, my darlin’. —...
Jim Glynn
Apr 25, 2021
Opinion: Happy New Year, to cat fanciers as well
Originally appeared Dec. 31, 2016. The New Year we Americans will start celebrating tonight also will be celebrated by a good many of the...
Chuck Doud
Mar 24, 2021









